[Spice-devel] Failing to compile spice-gtk: generated_marshallers1.c:2:25: fatal error: marshallers.h: No such file or directory

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:09:46PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
> <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > That's debatable IMHO - 'make clean' should remove anything that was
> > created by a preivous 'make'.  While 'make distclean' should remove
> > anything created by './configure'.  If you really want to cache
> > generated files, then it is reasonable to move some items out of
> > 'clean' and into 'distclean'.
> 
> It depends if you ship the generated file and have tarball build
> dependency on what is needed to generate it.
> 
> In our case, we tried to reduce the amount of dependencies (python &
> perl & others - I am not even sure which one is still needed)
> 
> So "make clean" shouldn't remove those files.

Oh sure, if you ship them in the tar.gz then you need to put them in
the maintainer-clean rule instead.


Daniel
-- 
|: http://berrange.com      -o-    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :|
|: http://libvirt.org              -o-             http://virt-manager.org :|
|: http://autobuild.org       -o-         http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|
|: http://entangle-photo.org       -o-       http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|